OK what is going on in Romania?

We are, as everyone is aware, in a state of war across the West and beyond, but so far it remains in the information or political-warfare stage.

Trying to get facts or truth from events gets more and more difficult. In no small part because a great deal of material that appears to be on the side of liberty and human rights and a more or less republic form of government is in fact disinformation.

Let’s define a couple of terms properly, and operationally:

Disinformation is the deliberate injection of a narrative or untruth that is intended to damage a target. The target can also be an idea or a set of facts damaging to those who launch the disinformation.

Misinformation is the naive passing along of disinformation by well meaning people who think the disinformation is correct. Often they can be motivated to extreme actions by their belief in the truth of the narrative attack. The Covid years’ set of mass line narrative attacks really should have taught us everything we needed to know to protect ourselves. But it didn’t, and the attacks are getting better.

One of the ways we might suspect a piece of information that speaks to our confirmation bias could be false, is the way a video is edited. If the speaker appears to be saying something truly horrible from our perspective and then the video ends abruptly mid sentence, you can bet there is context missing.

And currently there is clips of a high level EU apparatchik floating around suggesting that the EU cancelled the Romanian elections and may also have to cancel the German elections because the AfD is obviously going to win.

To our understanding, this is the moment the communist revolution goes from covert to overt. If they ban the AfD, it is arguably still covert because the illusion of the people having a say in terms of which communist party they can vote for is still in place. Therefore, one could say the revolution is still covert. But if what he said is that German elections would be cancelled altogether, then the revolution has crossed the line into overt. We have a new game.

I know we have a few educated readers here from Romania. I really hope they weigh in on the comments. There are apparently major protests in Romania over the actual annulment of an election where a non-communist party won.

But did Former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton in a recent interview say they would cancel or annul German elections coming up in February? OR was he talking about cancelling TiwtterX in those countries? As Europe and Canada already showed their hand by cancelling all Russian media’s ability to broadcast to a Western audience, it would be no surprise that they could cancel a public forum that may contain materials threatening to the revolution. But while cancelling Twitter in Romania and Germany would be very totalitarian, it would still be less overt and destructive perhaps as cancelling an election altogether because they don’t like who would win or who won. As appears to be the case in Romania.

Any solid fact based information on any of this would be very welcome. The materials I have seen so far are confusing. And where it is not confusing, is of uncertain validity.